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Since long time i have been struggling to learn CSS and make my website look great. The efforts did succeed but not in a way i wanted. After playing with CSS for few months i finally switched to Joomla and yes, in a week my website looks pretty cool. CSS automated ;) . Joomla installation is pretty next-next job. Then play around a bit and you are done. Next game is to choose a nice looking template according to your taste and addition of few extensions to make yours tasks easier. (Wordpress & Joomla rock because of these free extensions). So after long time i feel satisfied with the way my website looks. Here are the screenshots of the old and present new look for archives ;) ...

I got one forwarded mail. Its worth reading in the present scenario: Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs10. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at Rs10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at Rs20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to Rs25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it! ...

Okay, so kids have stopped crying as they got some milk from their mommy: forums are better now (than when came back after an upgrade). There are reasons that it takes time for the things to be smooth. Fine. But what drives me mad is the way Oracle handled this and now ? The font size and those bloody bullets on left side which tell you if you have read the post before ? Please let me know if someone can interpret what those bullets tell and can read the forum without doing Ctrl + in Mozilla/Chrome and suffering from reading everything in large font size in IE 6 ? ...

Last week i had a chance to conduct my life’s first interview. The guy was a DBA with 2 years of experience and it was supposed to be a telephonic call. I checked out his CV and wrote down around 8 questions on a paper, just to make sure that i myself don’t get confused during the interview ;) . So i called him in the evening and started with introduction and his present job profile. Then i started with the questions from the projects he had done. He was confident about the stuff he was handling and replied all the questions honestly, saying NO at points where he didn’t know or was not involved in something. One of such thing was testing the backups. He said there is no testing done as such. ...

main ik wari pehla b spokesman cho ik article post kita c jithe lekhak ne gal kiti c k chandigarh ton delhi aaun wali shatabadi ch koi punjabi akhbar nahi hunda….es wari main eh cheez khud dekhi…..aitwaar savere di shatabadi te main chandigarh to delhi a riha c…pehla chandigarh railway station te ja ke main tur fir k dekhia kite b punjabi akhbar nai mil riha c…train chal pai….uthe jado akhbar den wala aya te main kiha koi punjabi da akhbar hai..kehnda nahi ji..fer mere ton agle bande ne b punjabi da akhbar puchia… ...

Few days ago i posted about DBAzine being down. I was just checking to see if its back. Its rocking now. Welcome back DBAzine.com :) Comments Comment by arshad on 2011-11-01 01:46:03 +0530 I saw your article — interesting I need to know many things 1st of all please let me know how to move (parameter, text) to word document from oracle form 6i. data is queried from table i can open existing document i can create new document now I wanyt to move text to my document like it would had been through mail-merge ...

A friend of mine raised a concern that when you are promoting Punjabi language and culture why the language used is English ? It should also be Punjabi. Well I fully agree to the fact. If we are promoting Punjabi, the very first thing is that the language used for that promotion campaign has to be Punjabi. No second thought here. Now another thing that bugs me a bit is that some percentage of Punjabi people (pretty good portion, I guess) cannot read Gurmukhi (That is why I am writing this post in English). So if we write in Gurmukhi aren’t we missing them as a target of our message ? They won’t be interested in trying to read this. ...

Today I was googling about Oracle Data Guard and came across an article on dbazine.com. I opened the link and it showed some stupid page. I checked again and again. Finally I noticed a message on top right: dbazine.com expired on 03/13/2008 and is pending renewal or deletion. :( It was a nice website.

Well, I created this blog to post all the poetry I have read and loved. Be it in any form a poem, a song or anything else and any language. Will try to post something regularly. Also I will try to include whatever information I have about the post like writer, singer or anything else. Hope, you enjoy reading the posts… :) Comments Comment by Aman Sharma on 2007-10-14 20:49:00 +0530 Very nice sidhu.Hope to read some good poetry finally! Cheers, Aman…. PS:Which blog writing software you use? ...